Stopping Adobe auth service at startup

[synaesthesia]

Happy New Year folks! (for when it happens! )

One thing that's been irritating me constantly, other than it just being Adobe (please can we kill this off? Awful software). - Adobe is constantly firing up a browser window for students upon login prompting them to log in.

It does so in Edge, ignoring the default browser settings. Device based licensing currently but we'll be getting rid of that later in the year. No reason for it to be doing this at login, it's beyond a pain in the backside.

Disabled a couple of services I can see are starting up in the background but not having any effect - and hoping it's not something we have to do as part of the built-in-1999 "package build process" as the idea of pushing out 20 gig to each machine again is just ugh....

Any handy hints?

 

[cw80]

You can switch off browser based login for the creative cloud app in C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\OOBE\Configs\ServiceConfig.xml

 

once rebooted you will get the built in adobe signin popup rather than it trying with browser.